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Current Talk '06 II / Re: Help! i'm trapped in this coffin!
« on: September 05, 2006, 04:00:56 AM »
The following may sound strident or pushy or something, you know, rude. Wasn't meant that way.
Stop thinking of cliche hypnosis. That's just one popularized manifestation of this phenomenon. I was never saying he'd say to himself, "Must hypnotize self. Imagine medallion. I'm getting sleepy." 170 years in a box takes the mind into some truly undiscovered country that we will never, ever know. I didn't imagine there would have been anything conscious or intentional about it at all. The mind does strange things to survive. In a sensory deprivation tank you eventually hallucinate.
By "hypnosis" I'm referring to going into any sort of trance or state that is different from lucidity and a connection to the real world. I believe bits of the same phenomenon we call hypnosis happen routinely every day. We adjust what we believe to be true about ourselves and the world around us on a daily basis, according to our emotional needs and fears, and what messages we are bombarded with by the popular culture. Some ideas become unthinkable because we are conditioned not to hear them, by the culture. Dreams could be part of the same thing that hypnosis is.
He'd go into some sort of "altered state" without trying; we just can never know what that state was. The mind struggles to escape inescapable circumstances, and often (not consciously) works out some pretty ingenious tricks to do this. Jung said I think that insanity serves that purpose. That's all I know about Jung by the way.
You're right, those daytimes would interrupt whatever altered state he had going, but I doubt he'd snap back completely into everyday sane consciousness at the start of each night.
Stop thinking of cliche hypnosis. That's just one popularized manifestation of this phenomenon. I was never saying he'd say to himself, "Must hypnotize self. Imagine medallion. I'm getting sleepy." 170 years in a box takes the mind into some truly undiscovered country that we will never, ever know. I didn't imagine there would have been anything conscious or intentional about it at all. The mind does strange things to survive. In a sensory deprivation tank you eventually hallucinate.
By "hypnosis" I'm referring to going into any sort of trance or state that is different from lucidity and a connection to the real world. I believe bits of the same phenomenon we call hypnosis happen routinely every day. We adjust what we believe to be true about ourselves and the world around us on a daily basis, according to our emotional needs and fears, and what messages we are bombarded with by the popular culture. Some ideas become unthinkable because we are conditioned not to hear them, by the culture. Dreams could be part of the same thing that hypnosis is.
He'd go into some sort of "altered state" without trying; we just can never know what that state was. The mind struggles to escape inescapable circumstances, and often (not consciously) works out some pretty ingenious tricks to do this. Jung said I think that insanity serves that purpose. That's all I know about Jung by the way.
You're right, those daytimes would interrupt whatever altered state he had going, but I doubt he'd snap back completely into everyday sane consciousness at the start of each night.